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Hacker News (Apr 2019)
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Chasing the Aurora Borealis
28 points • comment • apr 28, 2019
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From Disco to Techno, He’s Seen It on Sugar Hill’s Dance Floor
28 points • comment • apr 06, 2019
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Is Google OAuth Down?
28 points • comment • apr 17, 2019
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How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
28 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
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Body as a Map
28 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
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If You Care About Privacy, Throw Your Amazon Alexa Devices into the Sea
28 points • comment • apr 25, 2019
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Ask HN: What are some repetitive tasks you do at work?
28 points • comment • apr 12, 2019
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Let’s Talk About Capacitor Failure
28 points • comment • apr 08, 2019
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The Crystal Goblet (1955)
28 points • comment • apr 06, 2019
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An Introduction to Category Theory For Software Engineers [pdf]
28 points • comment • apr 20, 2019
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Show HN: Algorithms and Data Structures Implemented in JavaScript
28 points • comment • apr 05, 2019
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In an Oil Boom Town, Even a Barber Can Make $180k
28 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
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How the U.S. Surrendered to China on Scientific Research
28 points • comment • apr 19, 2019
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Portal Cloud Announces Subspace, an OpenSaaS WireGuard VPN Server GUI
28 points • comment • apr 20, 2019
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HOList: An Environment for Machine Learning of Higher-Order Theorem Proving
28 points • comment • apr 26, 2019
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The Most Modern of Modern Sports
28 points • comment • apr 17, 2019
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Mozilla IRC Sunset and the Rust Channel
28 points • comment • apr 26, 2019
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Google Killing Chrome Extensions with 1 Week Publishing Delays
28 points • comment • apr 05, 2019
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Google Open Source Tool for Securing C and C++ Software Libraries, Sandboxed API
28 points • comment • apr 21, 2019
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A school girl became the first person to fold a paper in half 12 times
27 points • comment • apr 27, 2019
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The Logic of Political Survival (2002) [pdf]
27 points • comment • apr 10, 2019
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RFC 7282 – On Consensus and Humming in the IETF (2014)
27 points • comment • apr 08, 2019
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Penguin Random House Creates Reader Loyalty Program
27 points • comment • apr 22, 2019
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After a Tax Crackdown, Apple Found a New Shelter for Its Profits
27 points • comment • apr 06, 2019
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Apple Defends Decision to Remove Parental Control Apps
27 points • comment • apr 29, 2019
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Ethiopian Airlines Pilots Followed Boeing’s Safety Procedures Before Crash
27 points • comment • apr 04, 2019
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Historian uses lasers to unlock mysteries of Gothic cathedrals
27 points • comment • apr 16, 2019
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Facebook Bans Far-Right Groups and Prominent Hate Figures
27 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
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Cats know their names – whether they care is another matter
27 points • comment • apr 04, 2019
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Disney heir calls on company to give 50% of exec bonus to lowest-paid employees
27 points • comment • apr 25, 2019
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How Does Turbulence Get Started? (2014)
27 points • comment • apr 22, 2019
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Where are my tax dollars going?
27 points • comment • apr 16, 2019
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5g Detrimental to Insects
27 points • comment • apr 23, 2019
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Ask HN: What are your tips to reduce drinking alcohol?
27 points • comment • apr 23, 2019
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Is It Possible to Beat Doom Without Firing a Single Shot? (2018) [video]
27 points • comment • apr 21, 2019
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The nutrition study the $30B supplement industry doesn’t want you to see
27 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
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Another Facebook fiasco–over 540m user records reportedly exposed on public DB
27 points • comment • apr 06, 2019
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China’s clampdown on religious freedom
27 points • comment • apr 05, 2019
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Political radicals don’t evaluate their own errors–about anything (2018)
27 points • comment • apr 27, 2019
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‘Longevity gene’ responsible for more efficient DNA repair
27 points • comment • apr 22, 2019
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A Message-Passing Interpretation of Adjoint Logic [pdf]
27 points • comment • apr 08, 2019
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Estonian Startup Has Become a Thorn in Uber’s Side
27 points • comment • apr 28, 2019
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Service for Some, Slavery for Others
27 points • comment • apr 28, 2019
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Snowden: Assange’s Arrest and Mueller Report Show ‘Two-Tiered System of Justice'
27 points • comment • apr 23, 2019
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In a Kenyan Slum, Cheap Antibiotics Fuel Deadly Drug-Resistant Infections
27 points • comment • apr 07, 2019
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Octopus farming will soon be the norm. Marine scientists say this isn’t good
27 points • comment • apr 07, 2019
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Microsoft announces will shut down eBook program, confiscate customer libraries
27 points • comment • apr 02, 2019
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France Demand Removal of 15M Project Gutenberg Books from Internet Archive
27 points • comment • apr 13, 2019
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Mailgun: Announcing Strategic Growth Investment from Thoma Bravo
27 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
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What the media universe currently looks like
27 points • comment • apr 08, 2019
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The infamous “AI gaydar” study was repeated – couln't be reproduced
27 points • comment • apr 14, 2019
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Adobe will finally kill Flash in 2020
27 points • comment • apr 22, 2019
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Plectics - The study of simplicity and complexity (1996)
26 points • comment • apr 26, 2019
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New Mexico Is Latest State to Join National Popular Vote Compact
26 points • comment • apr 08, 2019
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Building My Perfect Router
26 points • comment • apr 14, 2019
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Harvard’s freshman class is more than one-third legacy - why that’s a problem
26 points • comment • apr 07, 2019
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What's it like to try to trim a 737 MAX during high speed (Video)
26 points • comment • apr 10, 2019
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Show HN: Training Data for Robot Dogs
26 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
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What is the minimal basis for Futhark?
26 points • comment • apr 10, 2019
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Progression of the Inevitable (2009)
26 points • comment • apr 03, 2019
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Google blacklists 52 year old magazine
26 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
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WhatsApp bans Podemos channel days before Spanish general election
26 points • comment • apr 25, 2019
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The company that owns the New Yorker is bleeding money
26 points • comment • apr 14, 2019
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Australia Is Deadly Serious About Killing Millions of Cats
26 points • comment • apr 25, 2019
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Optimizing Inefficiency: the quest for the worst sorting algorithm
26 points • comment • apr 17, 2019
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People are falling in love with a simple productivity system using pen and paper
26 points • comment • apr 10, 2019
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How China is replacing America as Asia’s military titan
26 points • comment • apr 25, 2019
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As cashless stores grow, so does the backlash
26 points • comment • apr 15, 2019
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In-Memory Performance for Big Data (2014) [pdf]
26 points • comment • apr 29, 2019
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Simple Bash syntax error in Steam for Linux executed “rm -rf /*” (2015)
26 points • comment • apr 10, 2019
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Behind the Scenes on Retrofitting Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup's Random Seeding
26 points • comment • apr 07, 2019
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The Redacted Mueller Report
26 points • comment • apr 20, 2019
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Financier Who Amassed Insurance Firms Diverted $2B into His Private Empire
26 points • comment • apr 03, 2019
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Why Ford and Other American Cars Don’t Sell in Japan [video]
26 points • comment • apr 21, 2019
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Event Horizon Telescope Live Press Conference
26 points • comment • apr 10, 2019
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Show HN: Lexiconomy – Decentralized and Economized Dictionary
26 points • comment • apr 15, 2019
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Chinese Rocket company successfully demonstrates 'landing' of rocket
26 points • comment • apr 02, 2019
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If Open Source Isn't Sustainable, Maybe Software Freedom Is?
26 points • comment • apr 05, 2019
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Gentleman Officer
26 points • comment • apr 30, 2019
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11.3M pageviews without the growth hacking bullshit
26 points • comment • apr 06, 2019
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Affordable Housing Crisis Spreads Throughout World
26 points • comment • apr 04, 2019
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A Random Walk Down Sand Hill Road
26 points • comment • apr 25, 2019
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Bitcoin couple face death penalty for 'seastead' in international waters
26 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
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Françoise Sagan, The Art of Fiction No. 15 (1956)
26 points • comment • apr 30, 2019
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Free Speech Puts U.S. on ‘A Collision Course’ with Global Limits on Big Tech
26 points • comment • apr 22, 2019
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Ask HN: Would you leave your company for a raise of 20%?
26 points • comment • apr 02, 2019
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The soul of a new machine (2018)
26 points • comment • apr 30, 2019
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Ethercombing: Finding Secrets in Popular Places
26 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
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Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp Down Globally
26 points • comment • apr 14, 2019
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OpenBSD 6.5 Released
26 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
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Show HN: A simple self-hosted ngrok alternative
26 points • comment • apr 21, 2019
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San Francisco passes New York to become world’s costliest place to build
25 points • comment • apr 12, 2019
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Ask HN: How does your team run the kanban backlog/board?
25 points • comment • apr 25, 2019
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The Unknowable Artist: Stéphane Mandelbaum
25 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
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Facebook F8 2019: What to Expect After Facebook's Bad Year
25 points • comment • apr 29, 2019
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Einstein's E=mc^2 is only for stationary masses
25 points • comment • apr 28, 2019
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Progressive Capitalism Is Not an Oxymoron
25 points • comment • apr 21, 2019
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How Rippling Raised a $45M Series A – Without a Pitch Deck
25 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
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What Happens When You Smoke Marijuana, According to the Washington Post in 1905
25 points • comment • apr 21, 2019
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Google accused of sabotaging Firefox, again
25 points • comment • apr 18, 2019